800003 Queen Elizabeth II passes Hinksey Yard on 9 January 2023 with the 1P24 09:54 Great Malvern to Paddington GWR service. On the left, 70803 is doing a spot of shunting with the 6M50 08:01 Westbury to Bescot engineers train. I had gone here specifically to photograph 47593 Galloway Princess with the 5Z43 08:50 Crewe to Eastleigh Arlington ECS, but that had failed at Leamington Spa, and by the time a rescue loco had arrived from Crewe, it was running 250 minutes late, passing this spot in the dark at 16:36, several hours after I had arrived back home! |